Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Crisis Chronicles Press is thrilled to announce the long awaited publication of 13 Poems from the Edge of Extinction by Adrian Manning. This fine chapbook is now available for $6 from Crisis Chronicles
Press, 3431 George Avenue, Parma, Ohio 44134 USA.

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"Adrian Manning has a phenomenal ability to transform words into pictures. I love the way he paints his poems, brushed with this highly surreal and emotional tone. His newest poetry collection is no exception. Read it and see for yourself."

—Janne Karlsson

"These short poems do a 'dance on your tongue,' delivering a feast for the mind. I was drawn to them like a moth is drawn to the heat of a lightbulb. Taste them like a hummingbird tastes the nectar of a flower in bloom. Each poem is like a step ladder, each rung leading you to the next one. Food for thought, digest them as you would a warm meal on a cold winter night."

—A.D. Winans

"When I read work by Adrian Manning I fully expect to be challenged, intrigued, entertained and surprised. This little book is no exception to the rule."

—John Yamrus

"Adrian Manning is a live-wire from Leicester, England, an old school old soul poet/publisher. Stay on your toes because these lean poems punch well above their weight."

Adrian Manning lives and writes in Leicester, England. He is a Pushcart nominated poet who has had a number of chapbooks published and many of his poems have appeared in print and online around the world. For more, visit his Concrete Meat Press.

Saturday, March 25, 2017

Crisis Chronicles Press is pleased to announce the publication of Bestiary by Michael Estabrook. This modern bestiarum vocabulum is the latest release in our NineSense series of 9-poem chapbooks by writers you need to read.

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Estabrook's writing has been described as growlingly good. His Bestiary
includes "Extremophiles," "Humboldt Penguin," "Burmese Python," "Megalodon," "Colossal Squid," "Giant Huntsman Spider," "Mountain Gorilla," "Grendel" and "Swarm Bots." This chapbook is available
beginning 24 March 2017 for only $4.99 from Crisis Chronicles
Press, 3431 George Avenue, Parma, Ohio 44134 USA.

Michael Estabrook is a recently retired baby boomer child-of-the-sixties poet freed finally after working 40 years for The Man and sometimes The Woman. No more useless meetings under fluorescent lights in stuffy windowless rooms. Now he’s able to devote serious time to making better poems when he’s not, of course, trying to satisfy his wife’s legendary Honey-Do list.

Thursday, March 9, 2017

I have not written much the past two years (only 4 poems in all of 2016). But I did write a couple short pieces in January following the presidential inauguration and I'm honored that they have been included in the March 2017 flock of 13 Myna Birds, also featuring Poetry by Ariana D. Den Bleyker, Eileen Murphy, Jessica McKenna, Robert Ford and Michael Grover. Thank you to editor Juliet Cook!